Asymmetries of Jupiter's magnetosphere

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Jul 1975

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1975mnras.172...91k&link_type=abstract

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 172, July 1975, p. 91-95.

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Decimeter Waves, Jupiter Atmosphere, Magnetic Field Configurations, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Planetary Magnetospheres, Polarization Characteristics, Magnetic Dipoles, Pioneer 10 Space Probe, Planetary Radiation, Planetary Rotation, Radio Emission

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It is well known that measurements of Jupiter's decimetric radio flux and polarization are incompatible with a centred dipole model of the planetary magnetic field. Here it is shown that departures from a dipolar configuration cannot, by themselves, completely explain the observed variation of polarization position angle with Jovian longitude and that other effects must be invoked, e.g. planetary shadowing or non-rigid rotation of the magnetosphere. Apart from these effects the position angle measurements are consistent with the symmetry of the dual-dipole model of the planetary field, suggested by Smith et al. on the basis of the Pioneer 10 measurements.

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